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artificially en · ADV

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree English artificial Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English artificially From artificial + -ly.

Meanings

1. In an artificial manner.
   • These albuminous substances, whether found as normal products or created artificially in the blood, are distinguished as antitoxins, protective proteïds, vaccines, or alexines; physiologically they have been divided into sozines, those found in animals naturally immune, and phylaxines, those found in animals which by subcutaneous injections have artificially been made immune. 1895, Frantz Peckel Möller, Cod-liver Oil and Chemistry, page 442:
   • The actor spoke his lines artificially, with too much intonation.
2. By or because of human effort.
   • Images taken from an electron microscope reveal the way the gold atoms have formed into a highly organised lattice. Other images show gold nanoseaweed that has been artificially coloured. 2019 August 6, “Scientists create the world's thinnest gold”, in Phys.org, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2024, page 5:
   • This lake had been artificially made by the damming up of the stream that had previously wasted itself unornamentally, […] 1926, E. F. Benson, Peter:
   • The chocolate was flavoured artificially.
   • The coup was well-planned. Fuel was artificially held back so as to create shortages and dissatisfaction with Brotherhood rule. The old state-controlled unions mounted public sector strikes that further sabotaged the economy and annoyed people. Police-controlled thugs who had been used against the Tahrir Square demonstrations in 2011 came back into action. 2013 August 23, Jonathan Steele, “The west has little influence in Egypt”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 11, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2020, page 18:

Forms

Antonyms

naturally

Deriveds

artificially sweetened · artificially intelligently · artificially intelligent

Translations (16)

pt artificialmente (in an artificial manner) · de künstlich (in an artificial manner) · io artificale (in an artificial manner) · it artificialmente (in an artificial manner) · nrf artificiellement (in an artificial manner) · sv artificiellt (in an artificial manner) · ca artificialment (in an artificial manner) · cs uměle (in an artificial manner) · gl artificialmente (in an artificial manner) · ka ხელოვნურად (in an artificial manner) · ru иску́сственно (in an artificial manner) · fi keinotekoisesti (in an artificial manner) · fr artificiellement (in an artificial manner) · sv konstgjort (in an artificial manner) · pl afektowanie (in an artificial manner) · es artificialmente (in an artificial manner)